Topic: Cayman Islands Government

I wonder if I will ever see the day when a senior civil servant accepts responsibility for his/her incompetence and resigns?

According to our flag, the Cayman Islands was founded “upon the seas.” Cayman’s modern economy, on the other hand, was founded upon something else — speed.

An initial decision on which Cayman Islands government “surplus” properties would be put up for sale was made by the Progressives-led administration’s political caucus, a senior civil servant told lawmakers last week.

Sixteen people have been fired from the Cayman Islands civil service since January 2015, mostly due to what was termed “misconduct.”

The Cayman Islands Government recently approved a subtle change in the territory’s finance law that will leave the door open for “abuse and corruption at the very highest levels,” representatives of the Auditor General’s Office said last week.

While information technology was playing a larger role each day in public governance, the Cayman Islands was slashing its IT budget year after year, finance records reveal.